Kennedy family blast CTers

[Jon Banks]

It's pretty clear that Sirhan still believes he was right to shoot RFK over those 50 bombers for Israel. That's why he has not expressed remorse.

That CBS piece was so biased and one-sided but it’s typical of CBS.

Sirhan has in fact expressed remorse and apologized to RFK’s family:


Sirhan’s testimony during a virtual hearing — in which he said he didn’t remember shooting the senator but expressed remorse “if I did in fact do that” — has been insufficient for many members of the Kennedy family.

Douglas Kennedy told the panel that he’d lived in fear of Sirhan but now saw him “as a human being worthy of compassion and love.” Robert Kennedy Jr., who has echoed claims that a second gunman killed the senator, told the Los Angeles Times he was “happy that the justice system showed some humanity.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-13/parole-debate-continues-sirhan-sirhan-rfk-murder


Why didn't CBS interview, Jr, Douglas, or Paul Schrade?

[Jon Banks]

In 2016, Paul Schrade appeared at a parole hearing in support for Sirhan’s parole:

"Kennedy was a man of justice. And first of all, I want to continue, you know, my statement about Sirhan that I know that he didn't kill Robert Kennedy. And I'm here because of that.....Kennedy was a man of justice. So far, justice has not been served in this case.....There are no conspiracy theories needed here. I'm referring only to official documents and scientific results. And the way I've been saying this to my friends these days is that my job is prosecuting the prosecutors in this case because they're the guilty ones in putting Sirhan in prison knowing that he didn't and couldn't do it and did it anyway and kept him there and has kept him here for so many years. Sirhan, I want to forgive you." (p. 162)

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Featured_Paul_Schrade_at_Sirhan_Sirhan_Parole_Hearing.html


I can't imagine what the Kennedy family has gone through and I respect their opinions regardless of where they stand on Sirhan's parole.

However, it seems highly disingenuous for CBS News to use the grief of some Kennedy family members to argue against parole for Sirhan while ignoring the Kennedy family members who support parole for Sirhan. They don't all agree and that's fine.

Governor Newsom should follow the decision of the parole board just as he would for any other prisoner in CA...